"In this age of quick fixes and microwave mindsets, most of us want what we want, and we want it right now, whether it is instant download speed, instant riches, or an Oompa-Loompa, but just as you can't force the farm to produce a harvest, you can't force your seed of potential to grow until it is ripe and ready."

-- Derek Rydall

#Age Quotes #Riches Quotes #Want Quotes

“I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'”
“I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.”
“Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.”

Source : Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.12, Courier Corporation
“Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety.”
“Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.”
“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”
“There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.”
“Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.”

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